THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL PROFILE, LEVEL OF CAREER INDECISION AND OF PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY REGARDING THE CAREER DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Keywords:
career indecision, career decision-making self-efficacy, educational profile.Abstract
Career indecision represents one of the key aspects in the field of vocational psychology. The present study, with a correlational design, aims to investigate the relationship between educational profile, the level of career indecision and the career decision-making self-efficacy among the late adolescents (N=160). The results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between career decision-making self-efficacy and students’ educational profile, which means that there is a moderate association among these variables.
ZUSAMMENFASSUNG. Die Unentschlossenheit von vielen Personen im Bereiche der Karriere ist eine der wichtigsten Aspekte in der Berufspsychologie. In der vorliegenden Studie, die mit einem Korrelations Design analysiert wird, zielt man darauf ab, den Zusammenhang zwischen Ausbildungsprofil, das Niveau der beruflichen Unentschlossenheit und die Karriere Entscheidungsselbstwirksamkeit bei den späten Jugendlichen (N = 160) zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass es eine signifikante positive Korrelation zwischen Beruf Entscheidungsselbstwirksamkeit und Bildungsprofil der Studierenden gibt, was bedeutet, dass eine gemäßigte Verband zwischen diesen Variablen existiert.
Schlüsselwörter: beruflichen Unentschlossenheit, Karriere Entscheidungsfindung, Ausbildungsprofil
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